The intensity of liberal debate around health care reform shows how agitated policy addicts can get when their preferred approaches are challenged. The word "demagogue" is being thrown around a lot by normally mild-mannered people, over differences that are more technical and tactical than ideological. It's wonk-on-wonk mayhem -- the Brookings Institution meets the WWF! I tell ya, it's getting wild out there.
Demagogue (noun) - One who makes impassioned emotional appeals to the voting public; specifically, in opposition to a...
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